[grosqueneen]

I agree with "Where else would you rather be?"

As I've said many times in the past, no one on their death bed has ever said that that they wished they'd spent less time on the golf course.
While a six-hour round is no fun, it's hardly the end of the world and there are certainly a lot worse things I could be doing.

As for the poseurs, they've been there since day-one and while they may serve as light entertainment for their habits and their ostentatious displays of equipment and machismo, the bottom line is that as long as they're not holding everyone up, I really don't mind them being there. (The same thing is true for "Blue Tee guy").

Mulligan Guy drives me crazy but in a different way. If someone rinses a shot or sends it deep into the woods and they declare their "Mulligan", I have no problem with that. What I do have a problem with are the people who hit a poor shot and then have to hit another one to demonstrate (to whom?) that really knew how to hit the shot after all.

Who really cares?

Some things I think should have been mentioned are:

• People who don't fix ballmarks (My personal #1 pet peeve)
• "Carts only" policies.
• Foursomes in two drive carts who have to all "visit" each player's shot instead of going to their individual balls.
• People who take in excess of 7 or 8 shots to get to a green and then begin plumb bobbing putts (first cousin to "Mr. This Putt is for the Masters Win Guy").
• People who leave their carts at the bottom (front) of the green directly opposite the exit point, (who then have to walk all the way across the green to get it while everyone in the fairway is waiting to hit).

There are many more things that people do that get under people's skin, but these are my main complaints. As for "The Magician"; the "The way too quick to declare a golf ball lost guy"; and "Mr. Temper tantrum", they don't bother me. In fact, the first two actually tend to speed things up and no one sticks around to actually listen to anyone's tantrum, so it's all good.

The real gem in this article is, "The guy who searches for his ball as if it’s made of gold". These folks really drive everyone nuts. It's a golf ball for cryin' out loud and judging by the way most of these folks swing a club, it's hardly the first one they've ever lost. My advice to them is to either chill out and accept the fact that this happens or stop buying Pro V1's.

Good article!


-JP